English words about Mid-Autumn Festival:

Mid-Autumn Festival: Mid-autumn day/Mid-autumn Festival

mooncake: mooncake

mini mooncake: minimooncake

mooncakes with meat/ nut mooncakes: mooncakes with meat/nuts

grapefruit: grapefruit/pomelo/shaddock

soup dumplings: glue pudding

light lanterns: light lanterns

go outdoors and celebrate the festival: to celebrate the festival

Local Characteristics:

There is a custom to worship the moon at Mid-Autumn Festival in Chaoshan, Guangdong, which is mainly for women and children, and there is a proverb that says, "Men don't worship the moon, and women don't worship the stove". There is also the local custom of eating taro in the Mid-Autumn Festival, Chaoshan has a proverb: "river and stream to the mouth, taro child food to". In August, it is the taro harvest, farmers are accustomed to taro to worship ancestors. Mid-autumn night burning tower is also very popular in some places.

Jiangnan folk in the Mid-Autumn Festival people customs are also diverse. Nanjing people love to eat mooncakes on Mid-Autumn Festival, must eat Jinling famous dish osmanthus duck. "Osmanthus duck" in the osmanthus fragrance when the market, fat but not greasy, delicious flavor.

Jiangnan women's dexterity, the poem in the aria, into the table delicacies. In Nanjing, people enjoying the moon as a family are called "celebrating reunion", sitting and drinking together are called "full moon", and going out to the market is called "walking moon".

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Mid-Autumn Festival